OMG, I hate these Yahoo-type boards and how they eat your posts, LOL! I just did a whole intro and lost it when I went to add a photo. So hello all, and it's great to be here! I have a blog started, detailing the long hard expensive slog toward… More

...ce myself then. This site is awesome; there is so much to look at. I live in Eugene, Oregon, which is Zone 8b. We bought a house about three years ago that had very unimaginative landscaping. It was mostly lawn with… More

I wanted to try and start an indoor herb garden for my windowsill, so I bought seeds for basil, chives, and spearmint. I purchased some peat pot along with 'Seed Starting Mix'. I got a couple of small plastic saucers to hold them in. I filled the pots with the… More

I visited mastergardeners.org which led me to "Garden tips for Los Angeles County" (other Cali. County info. available). Thought people from Cali might want to know about the sites and people from Los Angeles (are there any? :( ) would want to read the following I copied from http://celosangeles.ucdavis.edu/Garden_Tips_for_Los_Angeles_County/January.htm "January… More

... is a challange in the desert to have a vegetable garden. The soil is not very good and quite alkaline and gets as hard as a rock. The mixture I use is one third organic compost, one third peat moss and… More

http://xrl.us/rys6 Horseradish: All of the roots were dug from the plant. The roots were washed and lightly scraped, then cut in small pieces and put in the blender with sufficient vinegar to make a smooth paste. It is important to complete the process relatively soon after picking the roots, since… More

I moved a daylily in April to another part of my garden. It's been doing fine, full of buds, but now they are turning yellow and falling off. It went from a hot afternoon sun condition to a spot that gets all morning and early afternoon sun. What could be… More

...le Garden was a success but not without problems, too little water, toomuchwater, soil mix was too heavy didn't drain well, fertlizer " toomuch, too little, how much , how often, I learned one thing containers must be watched very carefully because things happen FAST… More

...rning. I have sowed various vegetable seeds in my garden this spring. Thus far, a few have sprouted. They are all in the same patch of earth i have dug up and are in direct sunlight from early morning to late… More

...om seed...nearly 250...most are for a Hummingbird garden. The only ones that are giving me issues (a big headache)...are the Four O'Clocks. Currently they range from 8-10" in height and I'll be starting to harden them off about the middle of this week...if… More

...ds with good soil. The problem is that this year, much like last year, as the tomatoes and jalapeno peppers flower the flower buds just fall off and do not produce fruit(tomatoes or peppers). I went to a garden center in San Antonio(6 miles… More